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29 January 2021

Looking the Nets

FIAPCE postcard collection

the see within

the red net

the see without

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

detail

A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

LOGOS/HA HA

28 January 2021

HAND SPACE : Label -- Title -- detail etc

27 January 2021

beholding pattern

Holding Patterns Part One: Kien Situ (installation view)
Front, Kien Situ, Shanshui (Column), 2020, Chinese Mò ink, gypsum plaster, 136 x 24 x 24cm.

Back left: Kien Situ, Shanshui (Scroll), 2020, Chinese Mò ink, gypsum plaster, 88 x 64 x 8cm.

Courtesy the artist. Photo by Kai Wasikowski.

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

detail

A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

LOGOS/HA HA

26 January 2021

Australia Day/Invasion Day/Survival Day/ Recognition Day/

We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart:

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under our own laws and customs. This our ancestors did, according to the reckoning of our culture, from the Creation, according to the common law from ‘time immemorial’, and according to science more than 60,000 years ago.

This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown.

How could it be otherwise? That peoples possessed a land for sixty millennia and this sacred link disappears from world history in merely the last two hundred years?

With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, we believe this ancient sovereignty can shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.

Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future.

These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the torment of our powerlessness.

We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country.

We call for the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution.

Makarrata is the culmination of our agenda: the coming together after a struggle. It captures our aspirations for a fair and truthful relationship with the people of Australia and a better future for our children based on justice and self-determination.

We seek a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history.

In 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard. We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.

2021, Daylesford Town Hall, Dja Dja Wurrung country

"Unfurl your flag definitions. Flagness is the whatness of allflag." (after James Joyce, Ulysses)

- For Those Who Think They Need A Flag

Theatre of the Actors of Regard (-1996-)

A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

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23 January 2021

Yosa Buson & specific-bonding detail

Theatre of the Actors of Regard

detail

A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

LOGOS/HA HA

22 January 2021

Praxis

"Un pour tous, tous pour un."

- Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (1844)

"One and Three Chairs"

- Joseph Kosuth (1965), collection MoMA

Praxis : "I was just sitting there trying to keep warm, trying to pay attention to what was going on."

- Bernie Sanders, Inauguration Day (21 January 2021)

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Theatre of the Actors of Regard

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something...

LOGOS/HA HA

21 January 2021

Catch and Release

RITA FELSKI

How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes the aesthetic experiences of feeling captivated by works of art? In Hooked, Rita Felski challenges the ethos of critical aloofness that is a part of modern intellectuals’ self-image. The result is sure to be as widely read as Felski’s book, The Limits of Critique.

Wresting the language of affinity away from accusations of sticky sentiment and manipulative marketing, Felski argues that “being hooked” is as fundamental to the appreciation of high art as to the enjoyment of popular culture. Hooked zeroes in on three attachment devices that connect audiences to works of art: identification, attunement, and interpretation. Drawing on examples from literature, film, music, and painting—from Joni Mitchell to Matisse, from Thomas Bernhard to Thelma and Louise—Felski brings the language of attachment into the academy. Hooked returns us to the fundamentals of aesthetic experience, showing that the social meanings of artworks are generated not just by critics, but also by the responses of captivated audiences.

University of Chicago Press:
Literature and Literary Criticism:
General Criticism and Critical Theory